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27 mars 2010

Leiden Institute For Area Studies - VICI project

Buddhism and Social Justice
Description of the VICI project 'Buddhism and Social Justice: Doctrine, Ideology and Discrimination in Tension', headed by prof dr. Jonathan A. Silk.

Research topic
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In Sri Lanka, a prominent Singhalese Buddhist monk publicly proclaims that it is not a sin to kill Tamils. In Japan, the family register kept in a Buddhist temple and specifying the outcaste status of a lineage is provided to private detectives investigating the marriageability of a young woman. Through out premodern Asia, monks in Buddhist monasteries are served by slaves and indentured servants. How is this possible? Doesn’t Buddhism promote peace, equality and freedom?
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Overall aim & key objectives
Any religious tradition knows tensions between the inner dynamics of doctrines and ideo logies and the situations of institutions and social structures in the wider world. Reciprocally, societies evolve in dialogue with, and are shaped by, religious traditions. The project ‘Buddhism and Social Justice’ explores relations among competing religious ideals, and between these ideals and social realities, in Buddhist traditions of Asia through the lens of issues of social justice. Starting, both historically and conceptually, from an examination of slavery, forced labor, caste discrimination and prejudice in ancient Indian Buddhism, it asks how Buddhists articulated their ideals of equality, justice and freedom, and what the relationships were between such ideals and real-world exploitation and discrimination in both pre modern and modern Buddhist-influenced Asian societies from Sri Lanka to Japan. The project has five elements, a core project by the applicant and four satellite projects:

Applicant: ‘Liberation and Bondage: Buddhism and Slavery in ancient India,’ and ‘Different Equalities: Buddhism and Caste.’
Post-doc: Slavery in Korean Buddhism.
PhD 1: Burkumin (‘outcastes’) in Japanese Buddhism.
PhD 2: ‘Serfdom’ and Tibetan Monastic Economy.
PhD 3: Ethnicity and Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
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